Recursively chmod/chown/chgrp all files and folder within a directory

Question

I am working on a site which builds other sites. Some if it I use copy() to create the files and directories, other times I\'m building XML files in php and using DOMDocume

Answer 1

You can perform a system call

system("/bin/chmod -R $mod $root");
system("/bin/chown -R $user $root");
system("/bin/chgrp -R $user $root");

of course you use escapeshellarg() or escapeshellcmd() in order to avoid executing arbitrary commands